The qatsi awards
Dec. 31st, 2018 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiThe end is nigh for 2018. The only thing that prevents a simple "Good riddance!" is the prospect of 2019 - let's face it, we're not going to be off to a great start given the political disarray prior to Christmas. Still, there have been some high points, so here's the best of the year for me:
Other highlights: (fiction) Two Cousins of Azov; (non-fiction) Come to Finland!; (music) the Tango Prom and the Estonian Festival Orchestra; (film) The Post; (museums and exhibitions) Goscinny at the Jewish Museum, the Ateneum in Helsinki, and the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga.
No Food and Drink award this year, but special mentions for O'ver and Belgo Centraal, both in London.
It would appear that I predicted my demise at work in 2017's end-of-year post; disappointingly, that proved to be correct. So far, the new job has disappointed (and the Crossrail debacle doesn't help); there is scope for it to pick up in the New Year, but we shall have to wait and see. I don't think it would be good to move too quickly in the current circumstances. If there's no deal, then we shall all be "enjoying" our new "freedom" and blue passports from April; but, provided somebody does something at Westminster, it seems likely that things will drag on for some time yet.
- Fiction - Vindolanda, by Adrian Goldsworthy
- Non-Fiction - Machine, Platform, Crowd, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
- Music - The Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Proms
- Film and Theatre - Loving Vincent
- Museums and Exhibitions - The Course of Empire at the National Gallery
Other highlights: (fiction) Two Cousins of Azov; (non-fiction) Come to Finland!; (music) the Tango Prom and the Estonian Festival Orchestra; (film) The Post; (museums and exhibitions) Goscinny at the Jewish Museum, the Ateneum in Helsinki, and the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga.
No Food and Drink award this year, but special mentions for O'ver and Belgo Centraal, both in London.
It would appear that I predicted my demise at work in 2017's end-of-year post; disappointingly, that proved to be correct. So far, the new job has disappointed (and the Crossrail debacle doesn't help); there is scope for it to pick up in the New Year, but we shall have to wait and see. I don't think it would be good to move too quickly in the current circumstances. If there's no deal, then we shall all be "enjoying" our new "freedom" and blue passports from April; but, provided somebody does something at Westminster, it seems likely that things will drag on for some time yet.